Abstract
for personality clues in folklore and is designed to gain insights into general tendencies of personality. The limited scope and nonquantitative approach of study precude involvement with Kardiner-Linton concept of personality structure or more statistically oriented modal personality structure. Although some of theoretical problems2 inherent in such uniformitarian concepts have been fully recognized, practicability of their basic approach has also been widely accepted. The present study will prove no exception. Folktales, novels, newspapers, arts and crafts, and other cultural productions are considered to be forms of expressive behavior.3 DeVos, in his discussion of symbolic analysis as one of most popular methods in culture-personality studies, points out reason why attention is usually focussed on what is inadvertently expressed.4 Boas, for example, sees folktales as the results of play of imagination with everyday experience ... of daydreams ... and of their emotional tone.5 Colby cites Levi-Strauss's view that myths and folktales are vehicles for expression of opposing dualities and their mediating elements in support of his own theory that folktales are culturally patterned and thus reveal psychological essence of a people and of their way of life.6 According to folklorist Song: Korean folktales are true stories of people; they show exactly people's wants and way they live.7 These conceptualizations of folktales provide working assumptions upon which this study is
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